Kendall Jones is a 19-year-old cheerleader who attends Texas Tech University. Like most blonde cheerleaders, she’s very popular online; UNLIKE most blonde cheerleaders, though, her notoriety comes from the fact that she hunts big game in Africa, and proudly posts photos of her kills on Facebook, Kendall Takes Wild. And oh boy, has this upset people. Here’s a recent comment.

I think we should dress you and your crew up like the animals you’ve killed and will use are guns to hunt y’all. Your nothing but a dumb teen who wants to be on TV, well great start to your already failing career and life choice. People like you have no right to walk this earth you’ll never be able to say anything to justify your actions. (Via)

Why does Kendall, who’s been hunting nearly her entire life, update the page?

Jones, whose Facebook indicates she “is looking to host a TV show in January 2015,” maintains she is doing what’s best for the preserves, where there isn’t always space for even threatened species like elephants or lions. (Via)

Naturally, there’s a petition, because that’s what people online do when they’re outraged by something. But considering she once killed a white rhino, of which there are only about 20,000 still around, maybe this is the rare petition with a point. Warning: the images below are not fun to look at if you like The Lion King.

Still don’t see why this is such a big deal (except for the white rhino). If it is through a legitimate safari hunting company, any animal that is killed is taken, processed and given to local communities for food. None of the animals are killed and just left to rot…its just like hunting hogs, deer and other animals in the US.
Some people like to hunt….get over it. At least some local people get to eat well for a couple weeks.

“Here is the S African Vet administering treatment to the White Rhino I darted during the Green Hunt. The vet drew blood, took DNA samples, took body and head measurements, treated a leg injury and administered antibiotics. I felt very lucky to be part of such a great program and procedure that helps the White Rhino population through conservation.”

“This rhino was darted and immobilized to draw blood, DNA, microchipped, antibiotic shots and treated for a leg injury. It’s not dead and it’s not asleep, it’s immobilized with medication. It walked away once the procedure was done.”

Not really. Many of these animals are specifically bred on preserves to be hunted. So not only does this bring in business for many struggling tribes, it actually helps keep these animals populations stable, and cut down on poaching

Yeah, most of these completely legal hunts are blown WAY out of proportion. Besides what is stated above about these animals actually feeding hungry people. It’s not like she’s just hitting the Serengeti and capping a wild animal. All of this is highly regulated and maintained.

Feel outrage if she’s poaching and leaving the animal to rot. Since this clearly is not the case, go about your business.

This is where we see the difference between the Northeastern United States and the South and the West. Hunting is huge where I’m from, and it is almost always done for food. I see no problem with hunting as long as it is done legally.

Also those farmers may not post photos with their slaughtered livestock but they definitely are posing for pictures with that 10-point buck they shot.

@Bashrugger – Are you asserting they make “Cheetahburgers”? I mean, I live in Iowa and deer are almost always overpopulated and the food bank gets a LOT of venison. I have just never heard about the safari animal equivalent.

@Feklhr absolutely. Most of the local communities don’t care what the meat it, they’ll take it. There are numerous articles about this, I’m not going to take the time to post them when its easy to Google them.

Whoever said that she didn’t kill a white rhino, research her kills a little further. She has indeed killed a white rhino in the past. I believe she said one of her first kills was a white rhino. That being said, I highly doubt her claims that she does this in the interest of conservation. I’m pretty sure she’s just a rich, white moron with a huge sense of entitlement trying to get attention. The level of depravity it must take to kill one of these animals and then pose over its lifeless corpse while smiling with her big horse teeth is just astounding. She looks like a psycho.

Bu-but…I was told my lion meat came from all-natural, free-range lion farms where they were hand-fed, grass-fed organic lamb! They even have pictures of happy cartoon lions on the package I get at the butcher’s!

@tubesteak you’ve managed to Godwin this without once mentioning Nazis or Hitler. Impressive. I didn’t get to bed last night, been working 24 hours now. That was just the pick-me-up I needed, so thanks.

If she worked in a slaughterhouse it wouldn’t be such a big deal because:

a) she wouldn’t post photos of that online
b) it wouldn’t get her a TV hosting gig
c) cows, chickens and pigs aren’t exotic, majestic wild animals
d) she wouldn’t look so pleased with herself after killing them

It’s not so much “oh, she’s killing animals” as the perception that she enjoys killing them and her purpose is “sport” and/or career enhancement.

The only thing about this, and the thing that means she gets attention, is that she is an attractive girl who is hunting big game. There are lots of old boring white guys who do it, but no Facebook/Twitter/Reddit outrage for them.

Assuming the population control reason is valid (I don’t know whether it is or isn’t in these particular cases), she still shouldn’t be glorifying these kills. You had to kill a lion for population control? It’s a fucking tragedy, not a celebration. Fuck her and anyone else who gets a hard on killing these animals.

I find it hard to believe she gives a shit about animal conservation or furthering the well-being of these animals because she’s so damn proud. People who work for wildlife sanctuaries don’t take pride in killing.

If animals have to be killed, either for their own good or for the good of remaining populations, there’s probably more dignified and humane way of going about it. I can’t condone hunting for sport, it just seems like a waste of an animal and causes unnecessary suffering. And for what, a trophy selfie?

Seems like there’s a cottage industry in Africa for desperate attractive American white females who are hungry to become famous by killing big game. There’s this girl, the older brunette who was featured last — I forget her name — and I think there was a teen or some other young girl all profiling their big game exploits with large rifles. And they’re all desperate to turn their attractiveness and willingness to kill things into a stint on reality TV.

So maybe the Africans have caught on to that fact and are feeding their desperation in order to make their own show: “Crazy Yankee Women Shooting Things Dead!”

The Internet Outrage Patrol (also know as Smuggalos) has gotten so predictable and annoying that I find myself actively rooting for the source of whatever this hour’s outrage is. I don’t like trophy hunting though I support game hunting for food. But the lazy, ignorant, fat-fingered white knights who pounce on every story with hashtags and online petitions; spouting moralistic rhetoric with nothing to back it up can go to hell.

I am not a hunter, but I am an attorney for a conservation agency, and while I appreciate that hunting is an important tool in wildlife management I just can’t understand ENJOYING or WANTING to kill an animal like an elephant. They are so intelligent, and so incredibly hard to kill humanely. It’s just pretty horrible.

Exactly. If she is working with a wildlife sanctuary or whatever (which I find hard to believe) it’s pretty revolting she’s so proud and cheery of taking the life of anything, even if it’s a necessary act.

And I’m all for hunting deer & elk since there’s no natural predators and whatnot. But having been on a PHOTO safari in Africa I can say first-hand that the animals get so used to humans that they don’t even move when the truck pulls up. The bow thing is impressive if it didn’t cost the life of an endangered male lion. If you want to shoot shit, go to a fucking range (like I do), go cull some Bambis, or play some video games. Wasting a majestic beast that’s on the endangered list is just wrong IMO.

what a disgusting human she thinks she can get away with this shit posing with dead animals because shes “pretty” well guess what bitch youre a stupid evil bimbo and any girl can look just like you by caking makeup on their face and bleaching their hair she is ugly on the inside and its showing on the outside

It’s ok, The Mighty Feklahr believes this must be the karmic offset for all of the cheerleaders He has hunted for trophies. The electric bill to keep all them deep freezes running is like lighting a damn ballpark.

I’ve never been hunting in my life, but the amount of butthurt in this thread (as well as the death threats and blatant sexism) are quite amazing. You anti-hunting zealots are hilarious in your own little pathetic way.

People hunt and fish everyday, and it’s never a problem. No one stops and persecutes someone for catching a fish or stepping on a bug yet the moment someone legally hunts a safari animal it somehow suddenly becomes a big deal? There is no difference what so ever, none of those animals are endangered by the way. Good on her id hunt a safari animal too. I support her. I stepped on a spider today, so hopefully pictures don’t come out and I end up all over the internet for killing something. You all are to damn sensitive.

Your a disgusting scumbag! A fish is much smaller and is known for being killed. But this is huge! You think she did anything with that elephant… All she did was take a picture with it and than left. She left that poor, beautiful elephant there to rot, but we all know she should be treated the same way, in hell!! SHE COULDN’T FIT A 1,000 pound animal on her stupid safari van!! BURN IN HELL DUMBASS

I don’t know. Being military it is disgusting to see people waste their freedom on such things. Isn’t there enough destruction already in the world. How is she preserving these rare animals. Is she God that she can control animal population. Why does she pose arrogantly at the kill. Let the natural flow of life take care of animal control. Yet remember she is a teen and a cheerleader doesn’t seem to bright and this does show it. I assume these animals were sleeping not hard to hunt sleeping animals or tranquilized. What expert skills does she show. I would be ashamed if I was her especially hypocritical.

Maybe you should do a bit more looking into this instead of this one article. She didn’t kill a white rhino. Thank you for your service but doing what she wants to do with her “free” time isn’t actually a waste of “her” freedom is it?

People from all over the world hate you som much you rea a beast and by the time somebody will end your abuse of your money to kill endangered animals!You is really a pshycopat a murder!I hope you will receive same violent death as you did to these beautiful animals you killed!

This is disgusting!! These graceful, beautiful animals are soon to be distinct because of this! She killed an elephant, I doubt she took it home with her! She probably took a picture and left it there to rot…